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Getting a hold of me is pretty easy. Use the Contact Form below or toddle on down to my local Starbucks. Also, a handful of coffee beans will probably bring me out too.

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About Me

Rhys Ford is an award-winning author with several long-running LGBT+ mystery, thriller, paranormal, and urban fantasy series and is a two-time LAMBDA finalist with her Murder and Mayhem novels. She is published by Dreamspinner Press and DSP Publications.

She’s also quite skeptical about bios without a dash of something personal and really, who doesn’t mention their cats, dog and cars in a bio? She shares the house with Harley, an insane grey tuxedo cat as well as a ginger cairn terrorist named Gus. Rhys is also enslaved to the upkeep a 1979 Pontiac Firebird and enjoys murdering make-believe people.

Her narrators include:
Hailing from the chilly hills of upstate New York, award-winning narrator Greg Tremblay lends his voice to Rhys Ford’s “Kai Gracen” and “Cole McGinnis” series, “Murder and Mayhem” and a number of stand alone works. She is also narrated by Tristan James, a fabulous talent who voices her “Sinners”, “Hellsinger” and “415 Ink” series, and Derrick McClain, a rising, vibrant narrator who voices her “Wayward Wolves” series. In addition, Spencer Goss provides a rich narration for Fish Stick Fridays, the first novel in her Half Moon Bay series.

Aw, thank you so much! Yes, Cole and Jae will be a series. I’m working on Book Two now. Well, not right right now but later on this afternoon. :::grins::: Hope you enjoy Dirty Kiss! Drop me a line when you’re done! Thank you!

Heh… thank you! Jae does “cook” in this one… a bit. He’s very food-centric. Like many Asians, the first thing he will ask you is “Have you eaten?” I wanted to portray that as a part of him. It’s a very steeped in mindset for both the Korean and Japanese culture… at the very least… tea.

Ummm..ok, I’m embarrassed that I’m posting on here because I’ve not read anything you’ve written. Heck, I never even knew you existed until I was browsing All Romance and was intrigued w/ Dirty Secret and wanted to check out comments before I bought it. LOL. 🙂

It is all good. *passes you cookies and coffee* I stumble across authors all the time and say… hey, I’m kinda interested. Please, no pressure. Mostly I ramble here. GOD DO I RAMBLE! I also post pictures of pretty boys and dinners. You’re ALWAYS welcome here!

A couple of things, was your dedication to Harrison Ford the actor or someone else? I just found it funny when I was reading it. LOL. 🙂

Finished reading the first one and enjoyed it immensely. I sorta had to looked up a couple of words…..LOL…very well written is all. You definitely captured the whole “asian” thing from the relatives to the soup Jae-Min was cooking that first time he and Cole met.

Honestly, I thought it was the mom, you know. LOL. Anyway, truly a great read and will be reading the 2nd one sometime today.

Btw, are these the only books you have or do you have more that All Romance doesn’t carry or something?

Aw thank you. And yes, it is to Harrison Ford the actor because really, I think he was so much a part of the whole romance action hero thing for me as a kid and then as an adult, he still kicks ass. Harrison fricking Ford!

It’s actually harder to write Cole because I am Asian and I have to step out of what I know intimately and look at it from the outside. So much of what Cole does comes from friends’ reactions and how they’ve felt when encountering an Asian cultural disparity. It’s been great to write him. I love having his snark to explore.

Heh… ah, the killer. It was almost the Mom in the beginning but oh, didn’t it make sense for it to be who it was? *grins*

Just finished Dirty Secret! Awesome!! Actually I bought Dirty Kiss when it came out, then last week bought Dirty Secret and Sinner’s Gin. So I read Sinner’s Gin (which was amazing and can’t wait for more) then read Dirty Kiss again and then Dirty Secret. Amazing! Can hardly wait for Dirty Laundry to come out. I’ll just start them over again! LOL!!
I read entirely tooo fast! I read all 3 of your books in about 4 days. 😦 They were so good I just couldn’t put them down and stop reading! 🙂
Keep up the amazing work and congratulations on #1!! You Rock! XOX

Started with Sinner’s Gin (wonderful!) and ended up reading the McGinnis Series as well.
I was so pleased (and surprised) to see how you described the Korean and Japanese culture and now I can’t wait until your next book!

I loved Sinners Gin,and the first 2 books in the McGinnis series. How did I miss you before now? I stayed up late to complete them. You are on my automatic buyers list. Thanks for opportunity to read such wonderful books from such a talented writer.

Thumbs up. I love your characters and your writing style, you are an awesome storyteller. I’ve read four of your books starting with Sinners Gin. It made me pick up the Cole and Jae series and I read all three in two days. Can’t wait to see what you out out next.

I just finished Dirty Laundry. I had purchased it the minute it came out but wanted to re-read the first two books so everything was fresh in my mind. I loved it. Thank you so much for writing good books. And man was it an emotional roller coaster. I’m going to need to take something to calm down. I was happy, sad, shocked, scared, I don’t know how to feel any more! I need to read something boring. I’ll go peruse my law books. Oh and I can’t wait for the next one. Two more right?

I just finished reading “Whiskey and Wry” and have fallen in love with the Morgans, and looking forward to the rest of the Sinners series. I loved Sinner’s Gin and the bond between Damien and Miki. I’ve read that this is a 4 book series. Are you planning on resurrecting the remaining 2 band members? If not, will you give Connor his story? He’s marvelous and it would be awesome to read about his journey. If you hadn’t picked up on it, I LOVED this series. Btw, I’ve purchased the Cole McGinnis series as well and can’t wait to start reading. Thanks.

I am reading “Whiskey And Wry” for like the 30th time. I read “Sinner’s Gin” the first time during an extreme January frost fog, and I spent that day examining amazing crystalized spider web lace works and then going back to your book. Happy birthday. 😉

Okay totally random thought…but there are tons of stories with cops out yes? But I can’t think of any off hand about mounted police. I mean you have men in uniforms riding around cities & such on horseback & that is pretty sexy….I mean it’s men in uniform with a dash of cowboy! *blinks*
See I told ya it was random 😉 lol
Was listening to the radio this morning & they were talking about mounted police in L.A. & I was just huh why not?
Now I have to search & see if I can find any!

Oh Rhys!…so I tripped across a simply gorgeous model & let me say I was surprised because I have really never been a fan of face fur *squinches face* but omg this guy only does the full on beard & wild hair & I am in awe(ok yes lust) because he is just freakin’ beautiful lol
Look up Spyros Christopolous ;)…whatcha think? 😀

Quick!…I sooo need a reminder that change can be good ><
We just got notice we are gonna have to find a new place by the end of June.
…me & Change have a whole thing going on in the midst. After the dust has settled I am just peachy…during not so much!*tries not to hypervenilate*

Tell me about it! Pretty green eyes at least I think they are green & sooo intense!
Yeah the facial hair…I no like, but some how it works on him? I think I have only found 1 pic of him with barely a beard. It gives a nice view of his lips 😀

Hey Rhys,
I was searching online for a LGBT book which include ‘secret’ in its title and wined up finding ‘Dirty Secret’. After I’ve purchased it I found the dedication/thanking part and my eyes literally bulged out when seeing JYJ, Bigbang, and G-dragon. Now I haven’t read a line of it yet since I decided to find and stalk you first, but I have a feeling it’s going to be worth my time. Since well, I love those kpopers from the bottom of my heart.
So yeah, I was wondering if you write more fictions where you use Bigbang as main characters. Or if you have a fanfiction website I can go to. It’s been a while since I read any FF and it would be great if I read something by you.

Ah I haven’t written fan fiction in a while. I don’t even know what’s out there anymore. 😀 but I do still keep up with the fandom and the music. ‘Cause you know… GD! Heh. I am glad you found the book! That is so cool! *cheers* I hope you like it! Truly. It was a great adventure to write.

Happened to see this. With the passing of Leonard Nimoy, don’t we owe a salute to the Spock character in the world of Fan Fic? Wasn’t it Spock and Kirk who inspired the earliest Fan Fics?
And “Dirty Secret” is one of my favorites by you.

I’ve just finished reading your new book Murder and Mayhem and I couldn’t put it down it was so good! I was just wondering if you currently have any plans for there to be more books in the series and if so would they continue Rook and Dante’s story or follow others? Thanks!

I do like your Cole McGinnis series, but I LOVE the Sinners series. Forest and Conner are so sweet! And who wouldn’t love the little hedgehog named Miki?! Are you going to write any short stories for them in the future? Please????

Just wanted to let you know, I read Mad Lizard Mambo the day DSP released it, and I absolutely loved it. So much so that I am already lurking on your site for news of when the next Kai book may be out.

OK, I know I’ve been derelict in my fanboy duties but here goes — Thank you once again for Kai and no I won’t gush but dayammmnnn — I think I purposely drug out the audio book to a 2 1/2 day listen — where I would drop back a few chapters between breaks in listening for like oh work…. 😉 in this way I would tell myself that I was not missing any details of the story line..
and please tell me we may see more of “Cricket” 😉

Also not to play any favorites but I had purchased “Absinthe of Malice” before “Mad Lizard Mambo” and, I solemnly swear on a bag of “Seattle’s Best Coffee” that I did a back to back listen on Absinthe of Malice.

After I finished Absinthe of Malice and had decided to run a search on Audible for “Rhys”, was looking to see if the Hellsinger #3 had come out is when I saw “Mad Lizard Mambo”, had to make a decision on finances but who am I kidding… 😉

With story-tellers like You, Charlie Cochet, Jordan L. Hawk, Josh Lanyon and a whole Greek Chorus of other like you I may have to get a real job…

And if I feel the need every now and then to drift into a warm haze of Pan-Asian culture I find myself listening to Cole and Jae-min while I make Chicken Adobo and rice for dinner.
Thanks again for your work and your world….

Aw, thank you so much, love. Truly. And I will pass on your kind words to Greg and Tristan, with whom I am ever so blessed to have put voice to my words. I love writing Kai and ah, we’ll see about Cricket 😀

Heh. we made adobo the other night! Thank you again. I am so ever grateful for your support. *hugs*